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ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE 



AL.UMWI 



OF 



ST. JOHN'S €OI.IiX:GE! 



At the Annual Commencement on the 32d 
February, 1S36, 



BY THE 

IIO]¥. ROBERT H^' GOI.BSBOROVOH, 



JN THE PRESENCE OP THE VISITORS AND GOVERNORS OP THE COLLEGK- 
THE GOVERNOR, AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE STATE—- 

THE TV^^O HOUSES OP THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

AND A LARGE CONCOURSE OF CITIZENS, 



JN THE COLLEGE HALL, ANNAPOLIS. 



ANNAPOLIS: 

Pi'iatsd at the request of the Visitors and Governors of the College, 



JONAS GREEN, Printer, 



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February 23<Z, 1836, 
At a meeting of the Alumni of St. John's College, held this day^ 
the following resolution was unanimously adopted: 

Resolved, That William Pinkney, John H. Culbreth, John G- 
Proud, Jr., Thomas H. Hagner, and George Grundy, be a Commit- 
tee to present to the Hon. Robert H. Goldsborough the thanks o;' 
the Alumni of St. John's College, for the eloquent, interesting, anc*' 
instructive Address, delivered before them at the recent Commence- 
ment of the College; and to request of him a copy for publication, 



Annapolis, February 24, 1836. 
Dear Sir: We have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed 
Resolution, passed at a meeting of the Alumni, held in this City ov 
the 23d instant. In discharging this duty, permit us -to express the 
gratification it will aiford us to receive for publication a copy of the 
interesting and appropriate Address delivered by you on the 22d o" 
February last, in favour of the Institution, lo which we are so mucb 
indebted, and on which we look with gratitude and affectionate in« 
terest. 

With sentiments of sincere regard, 

Your Obedient Servants, 

WILLIAM PINKNEY, "] 
JOHN H. CULBRETH, j 
JOHN G. PROUD, Jr. y Committee. 
THOS. H. HAGNER, I 
GEORGE GRUNDY, J 
The Hon. Robert H. Goldsborough. 



To Wm. Pinkney, J. H. Culbreth, J. G. Proud, Jr., Thomas H^ 
Hagner, and George Grundy, Esquires. 
Gentlemen: I have had the honour this morning to receive youi 
polite and courteous communication of the 24th, enveloping a re- 
solution of the Alumni of St. John's College, expressing, in most 
gratifying terms, their approbation of my recent exertions in obe- 
dience to their commands — and requesting a copy of my Address 
for publication. 

I yield to the request from a disposition to gratify my Brothers, 
"The Alumni," in any thing in my power — and as early as I can 
conveniently arrange it for publication, it shall be presented to you. 
I beg you to present me with feelings of cordial respect and gooc 
will to "The Alumni," and accept, Gentlemen, my gratitude foi 
your personal kindness and attention. 

With sentiments of fraternal regard, believe me, 
Very faithfully, yours, 

ROB. H. GOLDSBOROUGH. 
Washington, February 26, 1836. 



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My BrotherSf the Mwinni, and my most respected Audience} 

As long as gratitude shall be regarded as a virtue — as 
long as the offices of filial affection shall be esteemed 
among men — so long it will be beautiful to behold the 
Alumni of this venerated Institution, assembling within 
her portals, to pay the just tribute of their devotion at 
her Altars. 

It is a pious pilgrimage, my Brothers, which illustrates 
your feelings in the great cause of Science, and will stand 
in all time to come as evidence to prove, that, in your opi- 
nion. Education is one of the grand Pedestals on which 
the columns must rest that are to sustain the essential 
principles, and regulate the practice, of our well con- 
structed, popular Representative Government, The other 
Pedestal (too important to be omitted) is that pure and 
substantial morality which flows from Revealed Religion. 
On these two rocks we found our hope and faith — and as 
the columns of knowledge and of virtue rise, we fancy that 
we already see the magnificent arch of promise springing 
from either capital, as the cheering prognostics of our 
country's future weal. 

It is now almost forty years since the class to which I 
was attached, WIS sent iorth from i his Institution into the 
world, clothed in all its honours — and surely, since that 
time, she has passed through a great variety of fortune. 
About the year '89, in the past century, her Professors 
first began to assemble around her — and in '94, next after, 
her first honours were conferred upon her first Alumni. 
But no sooner had she begun to send forth her foster sons, 
than a loul and fatal plot was laid for her destruction. It 
was the working of bad ambition upon the untaught ere- 
dulity of an unsuspecting people. The object was an 
ephemeral popularity, never worth a groat — the means 
were to perish the hopes of the newly founded Temple of 



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Science, whose beams would have cast around too much 
light for the machinations of her ruthless destroyers.— 
Thus we witnessed, for years, a contest between the vota- 
ries of Science, who desired to diffuse Learning and 
Knowledge among mankind— and the political election- 
eerers of the day, whose ends were self, and whose in- 
struments were whatever would bend, and could be made 
conducive to their purpose. 

It was in this state of things that, now and then, one 
or two of her eldest offspring came m to her assistance — 
but her family was then too young, its members were too 
few to give her much aid — and they, who did go, had to 
resist all the allurements and influences that were exerted, 
to induce them to commit the atrocious act of matricide. 
Yes, the humble man before you, when first entrusted with 
the high responsibility of a popular Delegate in 1804—5, 
was called to decide upon the question of the life or death 
of his venerated Alma Matei — and he too was invited to 
receive the gleaming faulchion from their hands, and to 
plunge it into that bosom on which he had been nurtured 
with so much tenderness and care, and from whence he 
had imbibed the elements of every thing that had caused 
him to be looked upon in life. But he could not do it — could 
not, did I say? He dare not do it — he dare not prove false 
to his "soul's and mind's integrity"— he could not stand in 
the face of Heaven and of man, and perpetrate an act, 
that would have marked him as an ingrate, and pointed 
him out as one who desired to dry up and deny to others 
that fountain of pleasant waters, at which hetiad himself 
been refreshed. No, I desire to thank God that he could 
not — but that he stood out with others, undismayed, and 
successful in her defence. That was her last rescue— at 
the renewed onset in the following year, the Temple fell, 
— he did not witness that fall. 

The dreariness of a Gothic night ensued — but the Vi. 
sitors and Governors of St. John's, always faithful and 
uniiring in their duty, never lost sight of her resuscitation; 
and in the progress of years, as better opinions and more 
enlightened councils prevailed, St. John's arose again, re- 
vived and restored by a sense of justice, stimulated by re-- 



moi'se and a sense of duty — and here we are this day to 
rejoice in the result, and to witness this grand exhibiuon 
that has been brought about by the faithful perseverance 
of her Visitors, the enlightened liberality of our Law- 
givers, and the assiduity and skill of her accomplished 
Professors. 

My Brothers, the scenes of this day throw back our re- 
collections to times and incidents, too intiniately blended 
With our happiness, to be obliterated from our memory. 
They were the scenes and incidents of youth, when impres- 
sions are deep and durable — a truth never to be forgotten 
by Parents, Guardians, and Preceptors. Every occur- 
rence of to day is associated with recollections ot our own 
time — nor can the eye light upon any thing around that 
does not revive some pleasing impression. In every cham- 
ber — in every apartment— near every pillar in this ancient 
Hall we see, or think we see, the companions of our early 
life, or the forms of those venerable men under whose 
care we grew up. These reminiscences are delightful, 
and you must indulge me for a moment. Remember our 
favourite, our admired President McDowell — a man illus- 
trious for his virtues! Whilst our hearts throb, can he ever 
cease to hold a chief seat there? Call to mind his chas- 
tened purity of life — his profound and varied learning — 
his refined modesty — liis simple, unostentatious, but digni- 
fied manners — his paternal care — his love of justice 
throughout his whole oflicial life that was distinguished 
bv diliirence, wisdom and firmness — he lived here for vears 
admired, confided in, and beloved by alj; nor was there 
found one so obdurate as not to do him ponour. 

There was our worthy Professor Hfig^^inbotham too, as 
generous as he was classical — who, lik^ Minerva spring- 
ing from her fath' r's brain all armed, c:ame from the ma- 
ternal bosom of Old Trinity, equipt in all the armour oJ 
classic lore. If he had faults, he had eibduring and uv t- 
shadowing virtues also — but in the depaihments of Ethics 
and the Classics he had no defects. Iido not discern in 
all this assemblage the countenance 'S ^ single member 
of the old Professor's favourite class, t 
tentli legion, and in which he used to pr 



hat he called hi* 
:de himself. The 



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brilliant Legatus* who led the corps has long since been 
no more. He was a native of this city, aild in all the vir- 
tues of the heart, and in all the embeUishments of mind, 
he had no superior. 

There was also our Professor Magrath, the Busby of 
his day, whose very frown was law, but whose diligence 
and discipline could make a scholar of any thing. 

Nor let me forget our Priestly, for I must not run this 
reminiscence too fur, who was recalled from the then 
Western wdiderness to this Institution, at the immediate 
instance of our endeared and venerable Visitor, the ac- 
comphshed scholarf of West River. To Priestly we owed 
much for his taste in Greek Literature, and for his skill in 
the graces of tine reading and public speaking. I remem- 
ber with delight his clubs and his societies, and we never 
can forget his ardour and enthusiasm. 

But where are all these Benefactors now? They have 
sunk in the years behind us, wliilst we are moving down 
the stream ot time, like them to sink also 'ere many years 
are told. 

, In contemplating those of our own time, if it is a me- 
lancholy, it may be a salutary warning, to see how few 
4ire left. We, of that day, are not at a time of life to turn 
from these awful admonitions to obliterate them in a "sea 
of pleasures." I hope we are clothed with more humility 
and resignation, and that we are rather preparing to fall 
in the caliimess of philosophy, and in the iortitude inspired 
by the pure Christian hope. 

Such is the tendency of reflection, my Brothers, upon 
meeting you after our long separation. But I must forbear 
— I gee around me others who merit and command my at- 
tention—for these I must leave you to enter, before them, 
upon a more extended field of remark, more immediately 
iippiic;.ble to the great interests of public Education 
throughout the State. 

Standing as J do in the most respectful relationship to 
the Representatives of the Sovereignty of Maryland, I 

* Dr. John Shaw, of Annapolis.^" 
t Mr, Joan Thomas. 



i'ejoice to meet them here on such an occasion, and 1 con- 
gratulate you Gentlemen on the exhibition of this morningj 
which cheers us with the conviction, that we have, in the 
very heart of our State, a Seminary of Learning that has 
to-day imparted, and will hereafter annually contribute 
augmenting power, and strength, and durability, to the 
Republic. No more auspicious scene could engage the 
Executive and Legislative attention — nor can there be one 
more, worthy to attract the admiration of a refined audi* 
ence. The strongest evidence of the improved condition 
of society is seen in an extended patronage to Learning — 
not more by the niunificence of endowments, than by 
giving encouragements to its exhibitions and efforts by 
punctual and courteous attendance. Such stimulants ope- 
rate on all — they animate the exertions of Professors — 
they kindle a noble ambition in the youthful mind, and 
give a taste and characteT to the times, that dispose all to 
an elevated and liberalized course. 

In a Government founded upon, and moved by popular 
opinion, that opinion to be safe must be enlightened — nor 
is there any other foundation on which a Representative 
Democracy can securely rest, than upon sound Learning 
and sound Morals. 

An opinion is prevalent, that native talents, with but 
little culture, often render men capable of efficient servi- 
ces, and an inference is thence deduced against the neces- 
sity of education. That instances of this sort have oc- 
curred, cannot be denied, but they are few and very rare, 
and cannot serve as any rule for our dependence. They 
are rather exceptions to rule, and ought to bo classed 
among those singular and remarkable events, which arise 
without rule, and can lead to no decision. Great men, 
Avithout education, are not more frequent than great Me- 
chanics without an apprenticeship — both would have been 
much greater had they been better taught. 

It is education that forms the mind and gives it the 
sound direction — it trains, it feeds, i^ strengthens the fa- 
culties — and whilst it forbids the growth of those weeds, 
preiu^ ices, false opinions, and bad habits, that never fail to 
utifle and distort a better growth, it implants the spirit of 



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enquiry and the habit of study. These, together with the- . 
elements of science, constitute the ground work of the 
graduate, and are, altogether, the foundation on which he 
is to build up his future usefulness and greatness. 

From every observation that I have been able to make, 
and from all the sources of intelligence to which I have had 
access, I am perfectly satisfied, that the most prevailing 
and deep rooted popular sentiment in Maryland is directed 
to the promotion of general education. As the General 
Assembly of the State have, for some years past, wisely 
directed their attention to this important subject, 1 can in 
no better manner discharge my portion of the tribute of the 
general admiration for their design, than by a few practi^ 
cal remarks in relation to it. 

This sentiment in behalf of general education, I am 
aware, is for the niiost part particularly directed to Primary 
Institutions for the instruction of youth universally — but 
that sentiment is but the germ of a stronger gro^^th that 
is to produce still richer and more wholesome fruit. No 
occasion could be more fit than the present, to combat an 
error that has grown up, in regard to the relationships 
that the different grades of institutions for education bear 
to each other — it belongs to the day and to the times, and 
may not be unworthy of the attention of that most respec- 
table body of men that I have the honour to address. 

This error consists in the opinion, that AcadeaiLs and 
Colleges are exclusively beneficial to the wealth j — that 
they, who in ordinary life look no further than to a com-, 
mon English education to enable their children, when 
grown up, to transact their usual business concerns, have 
no interest in such institutions — and therefore, that it 
6ught to be left to the wealthy alone to support them. 

In all this, I think, I see much and fatal error. 

In all public institutions of whatever kind or nature they 
may be, by far the greater portion of their expense must 
be borne by the v/ealthy in all communities. This is ne- 
cessarily the case, and may be in some degree a set off* 
against any supposed inequality of advantage. But the 
point I desire to establish is this^ that there is nothing sq 



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Tikely to give rise to, or so well calculated to promote the exist. 
6nce of Primary Schools, as Colleges and Academies. 
' The students that go out from these latter institutions 
into the world, settle in various parts of a State, and 
whilst they are themselves striking examples of the ad- 
vantages of a high grade of education, they become, in 
effect, missionaries to propagate a sentiment in behalf of 
the various systems that are adapted to the different con- 
ditions of men. Besides, the Primary Schools are of no 
avail unless they are filled by teachers who are competent 
as to learning, and fit as to character — an incompetent 
teacher being little else than an encourager of idleness, 
and if he be not a man of good morals, he becomes the 
corrupter ol the morals of youth. 

What, let me ask, is our own experience in regard to 
the schools cilready established amongst us, few as they 
are m number? Do we not often find much difficulty in 
procuring teachers? And are not many of our schools bad- 
ly supplied? And of those teachers who are competent, 
are they not almost all natives of other Stares, who have 
been educated m their Colleges and Academies? Or fo- 
reigners, who have come to us fi'om distant climes where 
they were educated? This shows, at once, that it is to 
Colleges and Academies, at ' hom.e and abroad, that you 
musi look for competent teachers for our Primary Schools; 
and the question presents itself, whether it is better to rear 
those teachers up for ourselves, in our own institution?, 
where their cnaracter and competency can be better 
known — or to trust to procuring them, where we m.ay, and 
incur the risk that we must be liable to from strangers and 
impostors? Colleges and Academies are the only riurse- 
rics for such teachers as we want, and must have, for our 
Primary Schools, to render them fit for the purposes tor 
which they were designed — and the mutual relationships 
between the different grades ot Seminuries of learning is 
found, by the experience of well taught Primary Schoolo 
fitting boys for Academici, epd Academies fitting them for 
College — and this relationship being reversed, by Colleo-es 
preparing young me^ for teachers in Academits, and botli 
Academics and Colleges uniting in preparing a grcate^ 



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aumber of teachers to fill the greater demand of the Pri« 
mary Schools. Such is the natural and inevitable pro- 
gress of the system, and the older it becomes the more 
the mutual and sustaining action of the system will be 
developed. 

What an increased number of our youths in every 
branch of life, with a good system of Primary Schools 
directed by competent teachers, would glow with ardent 
desire, and become fitted to move on another step! And 
as knowledge begets the desire for more knowledge, many 
of that number would still pant on to take a higher step. 
Thus by such an organization of Primary Schools, talent 
becomes unfolded, and an opportunity is given to rescue 
from obscurity the sons of many a man in the land, who 
would otherwise be doomed to live unseen and die un^ 
known, and enable them to enter into competition on the 
great theatre of life, for all the prizes of fame, of fortune, 
and of station. This is not mere theory, it is history — 
and every man who will take the time ana trouble to look 
into the subject, in other parts of our country, or abroad, 
where Universities, and Colleges, arid Academies are am- 
ply provided, will see, that the first step taken by a large 
portion ot the numerous Graduates upon leaving threir re- 
spective, institutions, is, to become teachers in the subal- 
tern or Primary Schools, where they have an opportunity 
of reA^ising and improving their course of learning, and of 
gaining a little outfit in life from their salaries. The pro- 
gress of these keeps up the regular demand for successors^ 
whilst the higher institutions, by their graduates, furnish 
the supply. If this is not the experience in our own 
State, it is because the system has not been adopted long 
enough to produce the effect — for there is no other source 
from which teachers can be procured that are fit to take 
care of the Primary Schools. 

The course of instruction proper to be adopted in these 
schools will also show the necessity for such teachers, 
An ordinary English education, as generally understood, 
consists in reading, writing, and cyphering. This to be 
sure is a scant system, but it is good as far as it goes; and 
it may be all, with our prpsent deficiency of mstructorSi 



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thai can be effected at this time — hut it is very insufficieat' 
in itself for the important purposes of primary education, 
and if destined to be limited to this alone, it would scarcely' 
he worthy of the patron, ge of the General Assembly of 
the State. For I can conceive of no adequate course of 
instruction in Primary Schools, that omits Geography, th© 
elements of Astronomy, and the lower branches of the 
.Mathematics — and these are easily taught, nor will it add 
much, if at all, to the necessary expense of adequate teach- 
ers, nor will it consume a particle more of the time of th© 
scholar than ought to be given up by every Parent, We 
lYiay say of Astronomy, without the slightest profanity of 
thought, that, like the Gospel, it is a Heaven descernied 
guide in our pathways upon Earth. Whilst th^ lower 
branches of the Mathematics, so intimately wivolved as 
they are in all human pursuits, become ind'^P.^'Hsably use- 
ful in all the trades and vocations in lif*"* '"^^^ ^^ t^*^ same 
time train the mind to think and to ''«^«ison. 

It will not— it cannot be ratir-'ally urged in opposition 
^o this, that the children of ^^^ P^^i* cannot avail them- 
selves of these advantage- /I'^at man must be poor in 
lieart indeed, who, wb<-^. ^ school is provided for him wjih- 
in his reach bv the 'uunificence of ihe State and the con« 
tributions of th' "^ore wealthy around him, does not make 
ug i of it fo'- the support and advantage of his child, — ' 
Should ^"^ch an instance be found, it would be no argu- 
ment against the system, but a melancholy example of 
P&durate folly and unfeeling indifference. 

There are others of the same active and laborious clas- 
ses of men, who are diligent and industrious to hoard up 
•wealth to distribute among their children — Yes, "man 
lieaps up riches but cannot tell who will enjoy them." 
A general system of sound education would soon direct 
thai wealth into a wiser and more parental course, bv en- 
I'ichmg their minds with knowledge and their hearts witk 
moral sentiment — Better to enter into life without riches 
thran without education— A greater calamity cannot betal 
a Youth, than to start him into life, aboui:ding in worldly 
possessions but poor in counsel — his riches are sure to be. 
cpme a poiaon tg his health, and the spoiler oi tnsgoo^ 



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aame and happiness — and, in his own irregularities, Us 
lives but as the source of contagion to others. That fa.- 
ther acts wisest and most affectionat' lyy who studies to fill 
his son's heart w^ith good principles, and to store his mind 
"with ihe elements of sound learning, even if he has not a 
dollar to give him — -his hopes for riches will still be best — 
his chances for worldly tame and Heavenly treasure will 
^e surest. 

Let me then be understood to say — That whilst Prima- 
ry Schools are indi pensably necessary to the welfare of 
the great body of the people, the higher Seminaries areas 
essential to support them, by supplying them with the pro- 
pev kind of teachers. For, I repeat it, without such teach- 
«rs your Priniary Schools become useless — nay, worthless 
— r-tor all schools are useful only in proportion to the sound- 
ness of theii system and the fitnesa of their teachers — - 
and how can yoa have fit teachers unless they are fitly 
taught — and how c^n they be taught, without the higher 
Seminaries suited for L'^eir instruction? 

Can we picture to ourseirpg a more lamentable, certainly 
not a more preposterous seen*., than the future hopes of a 
little community collected togej^er at a little Country 
school, and placed under the superiniv^dance of a miserable 
pedagogue, wholly incapable of teaching, because ignorant 
of what ought to be taught — wasting his ovv^ g^d his little 
disciples precious time in sluggish indolence ^^d actual 
idleness, perhaps often indulging in degrading immoic,|ities 
^—frustrating the public design, and the parent's fond ai.-ti, 
oipations, and blasting the prospects of a rising genera- 
tion? This scene is taken from life, and what aggravates 
it the more, is that it is too frequently to be found in eve- 
ry part of our ow,n country. And can it be otherwise, if 
schools are multiplied in proportion to the popular demand 
for them, without having Seminaries to supply them with 
proper teachers? 

It admits of no doubt, in my mind, that the gradation of 
Schools is a mutually dependent, auxiliary, and concatena- 
ted (system, which is essentially necessai'} to the who! bo- 
dy of the People of th State, and to the preservetion of the ir 
Itepublican Institvjtions— and ifeat a good system ot Prif 



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lifary Scliools, according to the munificent designs aiiH 
judicious intention of tiie General iVssembly, can no more 
be sus ained without the aid of Colleges and Academies 
to turnish them with teachers, than that Mills can be made 
to operate in the. different parts of the country, to supply 
the wants of the people, without workshops and compe- 
tent m -chanics to construct the machinery and to appor- 
tion and apply the adequate propelling power. The whole 
system must be kept up as containing within itself its own 
conservative principles, and we rnust persevere with pa- 
tience and fortitude until the plan gets fully into operation, 
when it will preserve itself hy its own powers. It will 
then become a self moving Machine, which, by the beauti- 
fully balanced combination of its elasticities and gravities 
will be rendered happily unaffected by all external pres- 
sure. 

When that event shall be brought about — (and it is as 
much within ordinary human reach as any other prospec- 
tive event) — we shall see the Temples of Liberty and of 
Learning founded upon rocks where they will neither tot- 
ter nor fall — and we shall enjoy the consoling reflection, 
that we shall have adopted the true means to render our 
successors more enlightened and more capable of discharg- 
ing all those duties of a free People, when they shall de- 
volve on them, that are now discharged by ourselves. An 
era will there be evolved when the true Sovereign Power 
will maintain its rightful ascendency by the possession of 
its rightful strength and vigor — and it will be enabled by its 
own intelligence to withstand the seductions of corrup- 
tion, by discriminating between the artifices of professions 
and the genuineness of real patriotism. The designs of 
political affiliation will be frowned down by the improv- 
ed sagacity of the Sovereign Power, and merit, and worth, 
and probity, will command and receive that confidence that 
will award to them the meed of high places throughout the 
iard. 

But if in the inscrutable events of the future, the Sis- 
ter Fate shall ciip the thread of life 'ere this h ppter des- 
tiny to our country shall arrive — you will, at least, have 
had the delightiui anticipatioi* in view, and you will hare 



enjoyed the heartfelt satisfaction, that, as your Fathei;s 
achieved the independence of your Country, and built \ou' 
up a Government that tlie admiration and experience of 
the world have pronounced, "the best hope of mankind," 
you, on your part, have gratefully and faithtully laid the 
jfoundation of that system, which if zealously cherished and 
sedulously promoted, is capable, under Providence, of giving 
it durability in all time to come. 

Before I enter upon my allotted duty to the Graduates 
•of the day, I must-ask to be indulged with a short expos- 
tulatory address to the Younger Students of the Institu* 
tion. 

You are now, my young Friends, however unconscious 
you may be of it, at the most interesting and critical period 
of your lives. Buoyant in spirits and reckless of the future, 
your desires are bounded by an humble discharge of your- 
collegiate duties, and the enjoyment of your athletic exer- 
xiises and sports. This is a very proper disposition of your 
time, provided you take care that a full portion of it be 
given to your studies. But it is not enough that you 
merely acqidt yourselves well at your recitations, you 
must study each subject deeply, and impress the whol^ mat* 
t^X on your mind for etter use — and as your memories now 
may be made as retentive of* what you learn, as the pil- 
lars of marble are of the letters cut into them, you must 
devote yourselves to the charms of the classics, and to a 
thorough elements ry knowledge of the various sciences 
taught at this Institution, as the ornaments and ground- 
work of your future proficiency 

As the. impressions made here will last you through life, 
and be smong the most vivid in old age, it becomes ycu 
to imbibe none but what are good, and to separate youi*- 
selves from every thing that is unbecoming and immoral. 
Where youth is adorned with decorum, old age will .be 
crowned with honour — and the delight of looking back 
upon "a well spent lite"* is next to looking forward with 
hope to future bliss. Remember, and often refl ct upon 
the counsel of those friends to whom you v^q most dear— • 



* "Vita bene aeta.?^ 



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whose every wish for you is most anxious, and who desire 
nothing but your welfare. If you do not profit by youi' 
time spent here, it will be an ungrateful return for their 
affectionate kindness — and "to be ungrateful"* is to be ca* 
pable of every crime. 

To your Professors you should be mindful to shew an 
unhesitating and willing respect, as nothing marks the 
character of a student more strongly than the sentiment 
«f respect he cherishes for those who have the care of his 
instruction. To entertain fear towards a tutor is ignoble, 
and creates a suspicion of defect of character in the stu- 
dent. Nor is there any need of it. An ingenuous youth 
is above all the se?rvility of fear, Faithlul in all his du* 
ties — correct in all his deportment— punctual — obedient 
to all the laws, he stands superior to reproach and even 
beyond suspicion. He endears himself to his Professors-— 
and if he happens to err, it is either forgotten or lost sight 
of m the midst of his numerous merits — or if chided, it 
will be done with that Parental tenderness, that makes him 
more and more confide in the Professor as his friend. 

Do not regard the hours spent in College as restraints 
upon your time and pleasures, but as an arrangement and 
system which wise and good men have found mo^t con- 
ducive to [nake wise and good men of youths. The ob- 
ject is to make you devoted to learning, and to fire your 
young minds wiih the noble ambition to excel. The Col- 
lege course is, in some degree, life in •niniature; where 
you constitute a little community, anr^ all the finer pas- 
sions and sentiments and competitions are brought into 
action. Rank, Honour, and Fa^ie are all before you, and 
are the noble prizes to be con-bended for. These are wor- 
thy of your diligence and exertion, and none can be ob- 
tained without study an« labour. 

You have every incentive that Youth ought to have, to 
rouse you to the rr<>st energetic exertion; and I unite with 
your friends in encouraging you to action, and in wishing 
that you maj avail yourselves of tiie many and great ad- 
vantages iiround you. 



* «(<iui me ingratum, omnia dixit.'^ 

•3* , 



Young Gentlemen', Graduates— 

The gratityiiig duly is assigned to me to bid you wel- 
come upon your arnvcil at the great portal of lite, and aU 
thougii -personally a stranger to most of you, yet regard- 
ing you as our younger brothers, descended in the same 
maternal line, I go congratulate you most sincerely upon 
the mariner in which you have passed through your colle- 
giate course, which has been meritedly crowned with the 
honours of this day. This is your first public reward in 
life — and a noble reward it is: Conferred by a body of 
men who hold the proudest distinctions in society — pre. 
sented by the hand of your learned President, whose en- 
viable life has been successfully spent in Holy Offices, in 
Science, and in the instruction of Youth; and witnessed 
by the constituted authorities of the State and a biilHant 
assemblage of lettered and refined citizt^ns — you are to 
consider, that the reception of such honours, under such 
circumstances, implies a pledge on youi part, that your 
future lives shall correspond with the glories of this day. 

Nor must you forget this day so memorable in the Ame- 
rican calendar. The coincidence is auspicious, that the 
day oti which you are honourably ushered into lite, should 
be the Anniversary of the Nativity of the great Founder 
of the Rep(iblic— a man on whom all eulogy has exhaust- 
ed itself witV)ut reaching its object- — whose fame is as 
durable as the granite rocks of our country— as lofty as 
the summit of he^ mountains, and as extended as the 
earth and the seas. 

Emancipated from Collegiate rule and released from 
your attendance here, I re?K;nimend it to you, Young Gen- 
tlemen, not to throw yourseh^^s into the vortex of fashion- 
able pleasures that may intoxict^e and beguile you from 
your course, but return to the ai<^ent embraces of your 
impatient friends, who are mpre anxiN^us than ever to re- 
Cf ive you, covered as you are with hujours, to add the 
tribute of their t^nderest caresses and smiles^ to your other 
rewards. Nor 1 iter too long in these enchasting scenes 
of filial and parental dalliance, but entei at t>nce upon 
your allotted course, whilst the habit of study a-^d the 
force of discipline are unimpaired. There cannot he a 



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gi-eater error th?m to invite a young Graduate to relax 
and to reiresti himselt' with an indulgence in the pleasures 
of high :ite, dtler what are called his long and laborious 
duues at College. It is in truth ziothing else, than to in- 
vite him to divest himselt of good habits for th.> chance 
of acquiring bad ones. To such alluriag requests turn a 
deA e.ir: your good habits have been the means of gain- 
ing for you the honours of to day, and if pres rved and 
pors vered in, they will gam you many more. Lose not 
an hour, Young G^jntlemen — let the goal you have arrived 
at to day, be ihe starting point ot to-niorrow on the course 
of lite, uud w istf not the- precious moments of prepara- 
tion in inglorious ease. To a mind familiarized with clas- 
sic literature ana sciendfic research, how insipid must be 
the hours of indolence or the indulgence in frivolous plea- 
sures! The diffsffnce between inteliectual joys and pas- 
sionate indujgencies is marked^ in the extreme; and he who 
places his happiness upon the first, becomes elevated above 
the strifes, the mortifications, and most of the vicissitudes 
in triis world — he achieves the triumph of Phil jsophy over 
the grosser p issions, and entrenches himself in a fortress 
that resists the caprices of fortune and of men. 

Wh it^ ver may be your future expectations in life, it is 
all import mt, and I earnestly recommend it to you to en- 
gage in some Profession. It will employ your earlier 
years most usefuFy, and will give you rank and conse- 
quence in the world. If you are already w^ealtby, how 
can you employ time better than in gaining distinction in 
this way? If not, it is all important to you as the means 
of g ining fame and riches. Adopt a profession as occu- 
pation for your arlier years wh; ther you need it or not 
in a pecuniary point ot view, and by throwing yourstlves 
upon your own resources and self-reliance, you will gain 
indepen/.eece All professions are honourable, if honour- 
ably purr^ued, but any trade or profession is preferable to 
drojiping irigloriousiy into the political course, bt fore you 
are prepared for it, and th.re playing s. cophants to pow- 
er, or courteou.s mendicants for the dolings of patronage. 

In a popular Government, the inducements held ou to 
talented and well educated Young Men, prematurely to 



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outer into political life, are almost iiTesisti'ole— Yet siich 
a course is by no means to be desired for them — Many have 
fallen victims to this false step — more have suffered by it. 
To sustain political life with eclat, as much preparauon 
and labour is necessary, as in any of the learned proles^ 
sions — and the course of study for it is as profound, as ex- 
tended, and more varied, than for any other pursuit. It is 
to a riper period in life that political employment should 
be deferred—In the meantime, prepare yourselves to sus- 
tain the high character of an American Statesman, by de- 
voting yourselves to History, Ancient and Modern — to the 
elements of Law in all its various branches — to the pro « 
found productions of profound men. Cultivate and pur- 
sue all Sciences whose ground work you have laid here — 
and study well the History and Nature of the Constitution 
and Government oi your own Country — weigh well the 
views of the able men of all parties, and regarding men as 
frail and changeable, addict j/ourselves to principles that 
are unchangeable and imperishable 

If, in Your future and miore advanced life, you shall be 
called into the political field, and must there divide among 
the different opinions of the day — take care to divide on 
the ground of principle alone, and to it give in your adhe- 
sion. Upon such ground you can exult with your Coun* 
try in success, and stand undismayed in defeat. 

It is to be lamented that already, in our country, the 
pursuit of political office and emolument has become pro- 
fessional — but, as a profession, it must always be of an ab- 
ject character. The sacrifices ot honour and of princi- 
ple, too often made to it, are degrading — and the tenure of 
office and of station, so acquired, is as frail as it is prosti- 
tuted. Public station is certainly an objt ct vvoith\ of the 
honourable ambition of any man — but it must be gaintd by 
merit, not sued for v"tith servility — office should be fiilfid 
With a view exclusively to the public interest and weltare, 
not to gjun proselytes or to reward favourites. 

Ah public discussion-s are m< re fr^qupnt and more ne- 
cess ry under popukir institutions, it will become you to 
a; ply y<furselvt s particularly to Onitf^^;v', to perfect your- 
$tij,\eSf as far a* possible, in that bublime aru To do this^ 



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yoM miist give yourselves up intensely to the pursuit — Stu^ 
(Ay the ancient models that are examples of all excellence, 
and mipiove your Classical learning and taste — Then 
with ample stores of varied science, you will be preparv d 
to wield this all-conquering power. But take care to dis* 
tinguish well between true Oratory and its counteifeit, th© 
flippant fluency and flimsy declamation which pass for it — - 
guard against that diluted substitute, introduced by tiie 
Sophists in the decline of Grecian grandeur, and which ia 
so prevalent in our own times. We hear of natural Ora- 
tors — there are such — we find them both in savage ana ia 
civilized life — but the admiration they extort is rather sl 
tribute of feeling to a prodigy. How would Logan com- 
pare with TuUy — or even our Patrick Henry with the Ora- 
tor of Athens? It would be as well to compare the soft mur- 
muring of the gentle rivulet with the wild roarings of the 
mountain cataract — The one glides forth from a single 
fountain, whilst the latter is the united and impetuous gush 
from a thousand fountains. The sentiment should be deep- 
ly impressed and widely extended, that real Oratory can 
exist no where but in union with gener 1 literature and ita 
attendant reiinements. It charms with the music of its 
tones and the graces and expressiveness of its action. The 
•stores of learning feed it — taste modulates and embel* 
Jishes it — -and the study of mankind marks out the points 
of assailance, and directs its power — it is indeed that hap- 
py combination of letters anci of taste — of action and of 
passion — of logic and illustration, that forces the mind to 
bow down with the submission of conviction, and makes 
Captive all the feelings. 

It is to the uttainment of this noblest of arts that I now 
invite your immediate and ardent attention, as being in it- 
Sfiif the greatest and most usttul accomplishment, that can 
he possess d in a popular g:>vtrnment. 

But iherx IS a further subjeci, Young Gentlemen, ofei 
graver cast, th;it i have not yec presi nttd to your view, 
the on).'^'3ion ot which, on such ^^m ((ccsion, might be con* 
sidertd unpaidonabie by tho e tnouiid us. 

So far we have look* d at Ihos.^ sctiies in hie a!one,. 
wjiere the prevailing UiOtto m "covetous of Xioihin^y bufe 



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fame."*- — It is important however that you should elevate- 
your thoughts from the contemplation ot the world that we 
are in, to the consi'ieration of that to which we are destined 
to gu — We all feel that there is within us a *»spark of ele- 
mental fire," that is unquenchable, whose mysteries are un- 
folded by the Book of Knowledge and of Life. To that 
Book I commend you — let it be your constant companion 
—"turn it with an evening and with a morning hand'f — <. 
In it you will find that which will temper all exc€;sses in 
prosperity, and soothe you with its consol tions ''when the 
sighs are many and the heart is faint," — It contains too the 
^'fe >und direction," of faith that dispels all the glooms of 
the Sepulchre, and opens upon us the radiance of an Eter-. 
nal Day. Dwell on this Sacred Volume with all the in- 
terest of devotion, and make yourselves intimate with the 
doctrines of "Eternal Truth." — They lead to all happiness 
in life, and whilst they diffuse a lustre over the character 
that nothing can tarnish — -they implant a delightful hope, 
a sustaining fortitude, a blissful peace, that the world can- 
not .reach. Piety in man is that which gives him all his 
resemblancce to the Great Prototype, the glorious "Herald 
of Glad Tidings," upon earth — It is (he gift from Divinity 
that diffuses his charities and benevolence far and wide, 
and bmds him to the "Throne eternal in the Heavens"— 
In Youth it is an ornament — in Age a comfort~in both a 
treasure — and in that awful and eternal Day? when ail Na- 
ture shall become a wreck, and human grandeur is no ujore, 
it will be the only tftle to the "Promised Aic," through 
which alone we can be led into the realms of "never fad- 
ing joy." 

I bid you an affectionate farewell, Young Gentlenien-'- 
Imet you with gladness in the morning — i part with you 
at noon with all the feelings of an eldtr for his jounger 
Brothers. Remember the pledges you have given to-day, 
and in whatever situation you may be hereafter placed, 
never — never forget your Duty to your God, or to your 
Couniry. 



* "Pra3ter laudem nullius avaris " 

,t "Noctjirna versate manu, versate diurna." 



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BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS 



OF 



ST. JOHIV'S COliluTBGTi. 



Mis Excellency THOMAS W. VEAZY, ex-officio Presicf^nlj 
Hon. JOHN BUCHANAN. 
" JOHN STEPHEN. 
«' STEVENSON ARCHER. 
" THOMAS B DORSET. 
" EZEKIEL F.CHAMBERS. 
■" ASASPENCE. 
" THEODORICK BLAND. 
" JOHN G. CHAPMAN. 
" BENJAMIN L. GANTT. 
«« JOSEPH KENT. 
"" ROBERT W. BOWIE. 

ALEXANDER C. MAGRUDER, E^. 

SAMUEL RIDOUT, Esq. 

JAMES BOYLE. Esq. 

NICHOLAS BREWER, Esq. 

HENRY MAYNADIER Esq. 

WILLIAM H MARRIOTT Esq; 

THOMAS H. CARROLL, Esq. 

THOMAS S. ALEXANDER, Es^l 

JOHN N. WATKINS Esq. 

THOMAS FRANKLIN, Esq. 

RAMdAY WATERS, Esq. 

Dr. DENNIS CLAUDE. 

NICHOLAS BREWER, Jr Esq. 

JEREMIAH HUGHES, E q. 

ALEXANDER RANDALL Esq. 

JOSEPH H. NICHOLSON, Esq. 

JOHN JOHNSON Esq. 
DAVID HOFFMAN, Esq. 

Treasurkr, 
OEORGE MACKUBIN, Esf. 

SeCIcETAKY, 

QEOKGE WELLS, Esq, 



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3FACri.T¥. 



Eev. HECTOR HUMPHREYS, D. D. 

_PRKSIDENT AND PrOFESSOR OF MORAL SCIENCE- 
JULIUS T. DUCATEL, M. D. 

,PROFESBOR OF CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND GEOLO(S^. 

EDWARD SPARKS, M. D, 

5ROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES^ 

THOMAS E. SUDLER, A. M. 

PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND CIVIL ENGINEERI3Sf|^r 

WILLIAM B. LEARY, A. M. 

PROFESSOR OF GRAMMAR. 

(CHARLES T. FLUSSER, Esq. 

S'JIOFESSOR OF MODERN ItANGUAGEg. 

HENRY ELWELL, A. M. 

<JF|LPFESSOB. pF ENGLISH LITERATURIT^ 






CLASS GRADUATED, February 22d, 1836. 



KAMES. 



RESIDENCE. 



Thomas Granger, A. B. 

George Grundy, A. B. 

William R. Hay ward, A. B. 

Joshua D. Johnson, A. B. 

George Johnson, A- B. 

George Edward Muse, A. B. 

William O. Reeder, A. B. 

John H. Reeder, A. B. 

Henry William Thomas, A. B. 

Franklin Weems, A. B. 

Nicholas Brice Worthington, A. B. 



Queen-Anne^s County. 

Baltimore City^ 

Cambridge. 

Frederick. 

Annapolis^ 

Cambridge. 

Baltimore City. 

Do. 
St. Mary^s County. 
Elkridge. 
Anne-Arundel County^ 



SENIOR CLASS. 



names. 



residence. 



John M. Brome, 
Frederick S. Brown, 
John W. Martin, 
Joseph Trapnell, 
Trueman Tyler, 



St. Mary^s County. 
Charles County. 
Cambridge. 
Frederick. 
Prince.George's County. 



JUNIOR CLASS. 



NAMES. 



RESIDENCE. 



William Tell Claude, 


Annapolis, 


Marius Duvall, 


Do. 


Jlenry H. Goldsborough, 
3 


Easton. 



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Thomas Iglehart, 
Charles N. Mackiibin, 
William H. Thompson, 
Edward Worthington, 



Anne.Arundel Countyi 
Annapolis. 

Do. 
Baltimore County. 



SOPHOMORE CLASS. 



NAMES. 



RESIDENCE. 



John M. Brewer, 
Philip Culbreth, 
Caleb Dorsey, 
William H. G. Dorsey, 
John Thomas B. Dorsey, 
Thomas C. Gantt, 
Benjamin Gray, 
Reverdy Ghiselin, 
Jeremiah L. Hughes, 
Richard Hughlett, 
George Reeder, 
William C. Tuck^ , 
Brice J. Worthington, 
B. Thomas B. Worthington. 



Annapolis. 

Do. 
Elkridge. 

Do. 

Do. 
Calvert County. 
Somerset County. 
Prince.ireorge's County:^ 
Annapolis. 
Easton. 

Baltimore City. 
Annapolis. 

Anne.Arundel County, 
Do. 



FRESHMAN CLASS. 



NAMES. 

Robert Bowie, 
John G. Gamble, 
William Giddings, 
Pinkney Hammond, 
Benjamin Harwood, 
George S. Humphreys, 
Townly Loockerman, 
Edward Maynard, 
Francis H. Stockett, 
James E. Welch, 



EESIBENCE. 



Prince-George's County. 
Weelaunee, Florida. 

Annapolis. 

Anne.Arundel County. 
Annapolis. 

Do. 

Do. 
Anne.Arundel County. 
Annapolis. 



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PARTIAL STUDENTS. 



NAMES. 



RESIDENCE. 



John W. Duvall, 
William R. Goodman, 
Thomas R. Kent, 
William Reany, 
Samuel Ridout, 
Norman B. Scott, 
Henry Webster, 
William Webster, 
Edward Williams, 



Annapolis, 

Bo. 
Anne-Arundd County. 
Baltimore City. 
Anne-Arundel County, 
Frederick County. 
Baltimore County. 

Do. 
Annapolis. 



STUDENTS IN THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 



NAMES. 



RESIDENCE. 



George Barrett, 
John Basil, 
Richard Bowie, 
Robert Bowie, 2d. 
Lewellin Boyle, 
William Brohawn, 
Nicholas Brewer, 3d. 
Jeremiah T. Chase, 
John Clayton, 
Henry Duvall, 
James S. Franklin, 
Richard R. Gaither, 
Alexander H. Gambrillj 
George E. Gambnll, 
William Goodwin, 
James Gray, 
Benjamin H. Hall, 
. John T. H;;ll, 
Dennis D. Hart, 
Charles Holland, 
Joseph Hutton, 
John T. E. Hyde, 



Washington City. 
Annapolis. 

PrinceMeorge^s County. 
Do. 

Do. 
Dorchester County. 
Annapolis. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 
Somerset County. 
Anne-Arundel County. 
Annapolis. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 



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Oeorge W. Hyde, 


/ Annapolis 


Alfred Jones, 


Do. 


Matthias Liiithicum, 


Do. 


Walter McNeir, 


Do. 


George McNeir, 


Do. 


James McNeir, 


Do. 


George Miller, 


Do. 


Edward C. Mills, 


Anne-Arundel County. 


Thomas McParlijij 


Annapolis. 


Henry Mar raj^ 


Do. 


Samuel Ridout,. 


Do. 


Horatio S. Rid out s 


Anne-Arundel County, 


Theodore Re veil, 


Annapolis. 


Alfred G. Ridgely, 


Do. 


Richard H. Schwrar, 


Do. 


John A. Smith, 


Baltimore. 


John S. Stockett, 


Anne-Arundel County:. 


John T. Taylor, 


Annapolis. 


Montgomery Thomas, 


Anne-Arundel Count//. 


James Thomas, 


Do. 


John Thomas, 


- i)o. 


Dennis C. Thampson, 


Annapolis.. 


Levin Winder, , 


East on. 


James M. Winder, 


Do. 


Charles F.. WorthingtoB, 


Anne-Arundel County, 



COURSE OF ^TUBIES* 



PREPARATORY YEARS. 



English Grammar; Ancient and Modern Geography; Arithmetic; 
Bool^-Keeping; Outlmes of History; Latin Grammar; Corderius; 
-^sop's Fables; Historise Sacras; Viri Romee; Caesar's Commentaries; 
Sallust; Ovid; Virgil; Cicero's Oriitions; Mair's Litroduction, or the 
Latin Tutor; Greek Grammar; Greek Delectus; Jacob's Greek 
Reader, and Latin Prosody. 

Exercises in Reading, Writing and Spelling, to be kept up 
throughout this course. 



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FRESHMAN YEAR. 

FIRST TERM. 

Folsom's Livy. 

Grseca M^jora. (Xenophon, Herodotus, and ThucidydeSi) 

Arithmetic revised, and Algebra begun. 

Greek and Roman Antiquities,. History, and Mythology. 

SECOND TERM. 

Horace, (Odes and Epodes,) 

Oraeca Majora, - (Lysias, Demosthenes, Isocrates, and Xenophbn's 

Memorabilia.) 
Algebra finished. 
Writing of Latin Verses. 

THIRD TERM. 

Horace, (Satires and Epistles.) 

Grseca Majora, (Plato, Aristotle, Loriginus, &c.) 

Plane Geometry begun. (Legendre.) 

Translations, Themes, and Selected Declamations during the year. 



SOPHOMORE YEAR. 

t-zaST TERM. 

Juvenal. (Leverett'e^.) 
Homer's Iliad. (Robinson's.) 
Plane G'eometry finished. 

SECOND TERM. 

Cicero de Oratore, or Quintilian. 

Grse'ca Majora. (Odyssey, Hesiod, and Apollonius Rhodius.) 

Solid Geometry. 

Porter's Analysis of Rhetorical Delivery. 

THIRD TERM. 

Graeca Majora, (Tragedians.) 

Logarithms, and Plane and Spherical Trigot^ometry. 
Gambler's Moral Evidence, and V-^lefs Moval Philosophy. 
Exercises in Original Composition «id S^lpcution during the year. 
3* 



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JUNIOR YEAR, 

FIRST TERM. 

Graeca Majora. (Bucolic and Lyric Poets.) 

Applications of Trigonometry to the Mensuration of Heights and 

Dista,nces, and Navigation. 
Abercroinbie's Intellectual Powers. 

Do. Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. 

SECOND TERM. 

Tacitus. (History.) 
Surveying and Conic Sections. 
Logic and Rhetoric. (Whateley's.) 
Chemistry, with Lectures. (Turner's.) 

THIRD TERM. 

Tacitus. (Manners of the Germans, and Life of Agricola.) 

N'^.tural Philosophy, with Lectures. (Olmsted's.) 

Elements <;f Criticism. (Kames'.) ^, 

D.ebates, Compositions, and Selected Declamations, during the yeare 



SENIOR YEAR. , 

FIRST TERM. 

Natural Philosophy finished, with Lectures* (Oimsted^g.) 
Horace, De Arte Poetica, with Lectures on Taste — Revision of 
Greek and L itin, with Lectures on Greek and Roman Literature, 
Paley's Natural Tiieology, or 
Roget's Animal and Vegetable Physiology. 

SECOND TERM. 

Astronomy, with Lectures. 

Political Ecoiiomy, with Lectures. (Say's.) 

Evidences of ChrHianity, (Chalmers' ) 

Selections from the Septuaguint and the Greek Testament. 

I^^TRD TERM. 

Laws of Nations— Constitution— Lxril and Political History of ttre 
United States. (Kent.) 



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Butler's Anaiogf . 

Civil Engina'jriag — (construction of Machines, Bridges, Roads, 

Canuls, &c.) and Dravving. 
Minarrilo^y and Geology. 
D.;cla aitions of Original Compositions, Extemporaneous Debate?, 

and Exercises.-in Criticism during ttie year. 

The Modern Languages are pursued thioughout the course as an 
additional Recitation, and are required to be so arranged, as not to- 
iaterfere materiilly with the regula* Studies. 

Fall courses of Lectures are delivered to the classes on Chemis. 
try, Mineralogy and Geology; on Natural rhilosopiiy and Astronoe^r 
my, and on Pnysiology. 

The State Cabinet of Minerals, collected by the Geologist of Ma- 
ryland, is deposited in the Coll-Jge, in tlie same Hall with the Col- 
lege C ibinat, and miy be used in illustrating the Lectures on Mi- 
neralogy and Goology. 

The Officers of instruction will endeavour to make the course of 
study as ^A'9roM.^/j as possibl:;; and i;. no case will a Scholar be al- 
lowed to pass to an adT/inced standing, till ne shall h:ive sustained 
all the previous exaaiinj-tions to the satisfiction of the Faculty, 

Students not candidates for a Degree, may be admitted to pursue 
sucii studies emLiracod ia the course, as may suit their particular 
views, and will p^y the saaie rates of tuition as the classes to whiph 
they m^y be attached. 



The Bills for Tuition are payable quarterly, in advance, as fo|^ 
lows, viz. 

IN THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

English Department, - $24 per annum. 

Classical' Department, 32 do. do. 

IN COLLEGE. 

Freshman and Sophomore Classes, $40 per annum. 

Junior and Senior Classes, 50 do. do. 

i5o extra charges are ma,de for the privilege of the Library, for 
Lectures, for Room Rent, or Fuel for the Public Rooms; all which 



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expenses are borne by the Trustees, and are considered as included 
in the above bills. 

Boarding may be had in private families, or in Commons, at ^120 
per annum. The Commons are kept by Professor ELWELL, in a 
building provided expressly for this purpose; and from his high cha- 
racter and long experience in managing establishments of this sort, 
Parents and Guardians may be well assured that every attention 
will be paid to the pupils who may be confided to his care. They 
will not be allowed to leave the College premises without permis- 
sion first obtained of the Professor; and they will be required to re- 
main in their rooms in the College, at study, after tlie appointed 
hours in the evening. 

-Parents and Guardians are requested to place all monies intended 
for the use of the students, in the hands of one of the Professors, 
who will exercise a parental discretion in their disbursement; and 
the following Law of the State, passed December session 1834, is 
published for the information of all persons concerned. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, 
That no person or persons shall give credit to any Student of St. 
John'ri College, being a minor, without the consent, in writing, of 
his Parent or Guardian, or of such Officer or Officers of the Col- 
lege, as may be authorised by the government thereof, to act in such 
cases, except for washing or medical aid. 

■ Sec. 2. And he it enacted, That if auy person or persons shall 
<rive credit to any minor as aforesaid, contrary to the provisions of 
this act, he or they shall forfeit and pay to the Treasurer of the 
Western Shore of this State, a sum not less than twenty, nor more 
than three hundred dollars, according to the nature of the offence, 
and at the discretion of the Court of Anne.Arundel county; which 
may be recovered in any proper action before said Court. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Attor- 
ney-General of this State, or his Deputy, on the cornplaint of any 
of the Officers aforesaid, to prosecute for all violations of this act. 



VACATIOW§. 

Tlie regular Vacations are as follows: 1st. From the last Wednes- 
day in July to the first Monday in September. 2d. From the 23^^ 
of December to the 1st of January; and 3d. From Good Friday to 
the Monday week following. 



■3-8 \ 

SUBSCRIPTIONS MADE TO THE FUNDS. 



In 1821, at a meeting of the Alumni, and Friends of the CoU 
leo-e, in the Senate Chamber, at Annapolis, a plan of subscription 
was drawn up, a condition being inserted that the whole should be , 
void, unless the sum of ten thousand dollars should be obtained. 
Several names were subscribed upon the spot, but no agent was ap- 
pointed; ihe requisite sum was not obtained, and the subscription 
paper has been lost. The only record of it that remains, is the 
payment of the following sum, which was discharged by the donor, 
though not required to do so by the terms: 

Isaac McKim, 8^00 

The following resolutions exhibit a plan for the same object, xm] 
dertaken in 1834,^ and now in the course of prosecution. 

Resolved, by the Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, 
That the Principal be authorised and requested to collect sabscrip- 
tions, payable to the Visitors and Governors, to be applied by them . 
in the erection of suitable buildings for the aceoramodation of Stu- 
dents, and for improving and extending the Library and Philosophi- 
cal Apparatus of the College, and that the Treasurer 'be authorised 
to pay to the Principal, the expenses he may incur in carrying into 
gfFect ibis resolution. 

Resolved, by the Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, 

' That His Excellency James Thomas, and the Hon. Benjamin S# 

■ FoRKEST, and the Hon. Thomas Wright, 3d. members of this Board, 

])e a committee to co-operate with the Principal, in making all suit- 

able preparations to carry into effect the resolution of the Board, to 

collect subscriptions for the benefit of ^his institution. 

St. John's College, Feb. 15th, 1834. 

COPY OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. 

We, the subscribers, hereby agree to pay to the Visitors and Go, 
vernors of St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland, or order, 
the sums of money opposite our names, respectively, in two equal 
instalments, to be applied iii carrying into eflect the foregoing reso- 
lutions: provided, however, that this subscription shall be void, un- 
less at least ten thousand dollars shall be subscribed, as aforesaid: 
and on the completion of said subscription, the first instalment 
above mentioned, shall become due, and the other instalment twelve 
months thereafter. 

Sept. 9, 1831. 



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James Thomas, 

William Hughlett, 300 

Robert W. Bowie, JJ50 

William H. Marriott, 250 

Alexander C. Magnidef, 200 

Henry Maynadier, 200 

H. H. Harwood, 200 

George Mackubin, 200 

Dennis Claude, 200 

Ramsay Waters, 200 

John Johnson, 200 

Nicholas Brewer, Jr. 200 

Alexander Randall, 200 

Thomas S. Alexander, 200 

George Wells, 200 

Brice J. Worthington, 200 

Richard Harwood, of Thos. 200 

Richard I. Jones, 200 

Thomas Oliver, 200 

J. I. Cohen, Jr. 200 

Walter Farnandis, 150 

Hector Humphreys^ 100 

Robert W. Kent, 100 

Daniel Clarke, - 100 

Gabriel Duvall, 100 

Fielder Cross, 100 

William D. Bowie, 100 

John H. Sothoron, lOG 

William Reeder, 100 

Robert Ghiselin, 100 

Samuel Maynard, 100 

Thomas Franklin, 100 

R. M. Chase, 100 

Thomas Culbreth, 100 

Hyde Ray, 100 

James Iglehart, 100 

Swann 6l Iglehart, 100 

George F. Worthington, 100 

George G. Brewer, 100 

John B. Morris, 100 

Andrew McLaughlin, 100 

Thonjae B. Dorsey, l§e 



85 



William G. Tilghman, ^iOa 

Charles Goldsborough. 100 

John C. Henry, 100 

Joseph E. Muse, 100 

Henry Page, 100 

G C. Washington, 100 

Benjamin S. Forrest j 100 

I. Nevitt Steele, 100 

Allen Thomas, 100 

Charles W. Dorsey, 100 

R. G. Stockett, 100 

R. W. Dorsey, • 100 

Larkin Dorsey, 100 

John C, Weema, 100 

Chas. S. W. Dorsey J 100 

Daniel Murray, 100 

John H. Alexander, 100 

Gwinn Harris, 100 

N. F. Williams, .100 

Thomas S.ippington. 100 

Thomas Sn'owden, 100 

George Brown, 100 

F. S. Key, 100 

Virgil Miixcy, • 100 

Joseph Todhunter, 100 
Thos. H.Carroll, '100 

Jonathan Ellicott & Sons, lOQ 

Francis Thomas, 100 

John S. Sellman, 100 

Charles Carroll, .100 

Franklin Anderson, 100 

David Hoffman, ' 100 

John P. Paca, 100 

Robert H. Goldsborougb, 50 

E. S. Wmder, 50 

Andrew Skinner, , 50 

Jas. B. Steele, 50 

Brice J. Goldsborough, 50 

Thomas Huyward, 50 

William W. Eccleston, 50 

Chits. J. Kiigour," 50 

J. H. Wilkinson, 50 

Thomas E, Sudler, 50 



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J. Hughes, i5Q 

R. J. Cowmanj 50 

John Randall, 50 

George McNeir, 50 

Basil Sheph;\rd, 50 

R, J. Crabb, 50 

Thomas Duckett, 50 

John H. Waring, \ 50 

William Ghiselin, 50 

J. G. Chapman, oQ 
Leonard Iglehart, , 50 

Wm. D. Merrick, 50 

Charles H. Steele, 50 

Wm. T. Goldsboroughj- - 50 

H. W. Evans, 50 

Nnhan R. Smith, 50 

-Daniel Randall, 50 

James Wilson, 50 

David Barnum, 50 

James Carroll, 50 

Wm. Denny, ^ 50 

R. Potts, 50 

John Tyler, 50 

Henry K. Randall, 50 

Thomas J. Dorsett, " 50 

John Iglehart, 50 

Ann Iglehart, 50 

Richard Marriott, 50 

Julius T. Ducatel, 50 

George Gordon Beltj 50 

Samuel Jones, Jr. 50 

Jacob Albert, 50 

Benjamin C. Howard, 50 

John Tilghman, 50 

Richard Earle, 50 



't)^ The sum of Ten TJiousand Dollars^ according to the 
conditions aforesaid^ was subscribed, and the fact was an- 
nounced to ^Subscribers by the Newspapers, on ihe.lSth of 
April, 1835, wJwn the First Instalment became due. TJie Se^ 
cond Imtalmentj accordingly , became dxiQ on the lQthi)f Aprilf, 
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